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Posted by: tinyohyeah
Posted by: DonVinzone1
It's true.
Altough I'm not sure where you're going with this, like Grey also says...
Ah Reach being a reconstruction is no theory ;) It's stated that is in fact a reconstruction in the files that come with Halsey's Journal.
Being a full reconstruction, fully being propaganda? No, it's not.
The matter of fact is that the Legendary edition of reach is an ONI parcel being sent from one ONI agent to another. The recipient being a person who was involved with operation White Glove. White Glove being baisically a demolition group involved with destroying vital data alongside forerunner artifacts.
So we take the role of the ONI agent receiving the package, who was at the very least involved in the destruction of the sword base artifact. Whether it be actually helping with the armament, or being aware of what is going to happen to it.
Even more I think that ONI itself wouldn't falsify it's own data to other ONI operatives, unless of course they were low ranking agents.
Overall I view the hole "Reach as propaganda" as completely off base. That anything being presented wouldn't be a valid show of true heroism.
Nor would it be a good piece of propaganda. Any non ONI agent who got their hands on it would see that the invulnerable spartans die, that a military planet such as reach would fall so easily to the covenant, and the horrors that come with watching new alexandria being glassed. It would shatter all the propaganda that ONI may have already spread throughout the populous. It would make everyone on earth panic with fear, and chaos would ensue.
Reach is not propaganda. As for being falsified and presenting false data, that's up to debate. But to me the data is probably as accurate as ONI could make it. The fact being that the person receiving it is an ONI agent, and not just an ONI agent, but potentially an ONI agent that had their hands in the destruction of Reach artifacts, possibly even the Sword Base artifact.
Ehm...did those 2 lines of me say anything about propaganda?
No.
Reach is just a reconstruction made by ONI, internally!. Maybe it was made with propaganda usage in the future in mind. Maybe it was just made to find out what happened to a team of highly valuable Spartans that acted against the Covenant without knowing of Operation RED FLAG.
The latter seems most logical to me.
Apart from that: could it work as propaganda? Not in this way, because people wouldn't see the tragic-yet-heroic implications of Reach (the game). But there are a few elements in there which are well suited for propaganda.
Yes, Spartans were brutally kidnapped and trained....but look: they sacrificed themselves for the greater good and saved many lives!
Yes, Reach fell. But Six did manage to deliver Cortana and set off the chain reaction of events that made us win the war.
We have the most powerful AI ever, Cortana, as we managed to build her partly from Forerunner technology.
We were able to hold off the Covenant for 3 weeks, where other colonies fell in hours, days maybe.
Plenty of stuff that ONI could turn into propaganda if taken out of the complete picture.
But as it stands, all we know for sure is that the game is just the most complete reconstruction (interpretation!) of the events that happened surrounding Noble Team on Reach.
All I'm saying is: being a reconstruction made from damaged footage from security cameras and helmets, filled in with plausible interpretations by ONI is why Reach conflicts with Fall of Reach on so many occasions. Even with RED FLAG being explained by 343i.
Posted by: Wolverfrog
Posted by: grey101
Posted by: HipiO7
I had a feeling it was something like that back when I first got Reach.
Most cutscenes are seen through cameras, and there are whole days between some missions. It's obviously an ONI reconstruction.
In which we shouldn't take that as the actual event then correct? if it is just propaganda?
Propaganda wouldn't show humanity losing. Section II's agenda was to make sure the people back home thought everything would be fine after the brief storm had passed.
It's just a cinematic technique, one used commonly across many different types of media. To say it's a UNSC/ONI reconstruction is to read into it too deeply.
Let me make this clear.
Reach is a reconstruction.
Thats not speculation.
Thats not reading too deeply into it.
Thats not a theory.
Thats a fact, stated in the letters that came with Halsey's Journal and which are considered canon (brought into reality, but still canon).
[Edited on 10.27.2011 5:14 AM PDT]